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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to give my support to this very important issue that is being canvassed by our colleague, Sen. Mwaruma, on behalf of residents of Taita-Taveta County on something that is extremely important. This is an issue that is becoming recurrent. Many of the petitions that are brought to this House relate to how the Government treats innocent citizens of this country, who are powerless and, in terms of the wellness of their economy and cannot afford some of the flashy lawyers that are known in this town who would be able to push the Government into a position of paying. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is a well-known fact that for many of such transactions that the Government has undertaken, where there has been the possibility of a kickback, payments are processed faster or earlier than the construction of the road. In this case, because these are the wretched of the earth in the consideration of the bureaucrats of the Ministry, who consider these people as second-class citizens, no one seems to be in a hurry to compensate them for land that is duly owned by them. Madam Temporary Speaker, this goes on to inform some of the decisions that we made, as a House, when we were earlier on considering the Land Value Index Bill; where we hailed and rightly saw, because such issues continue to help us understand that we were right at that particular time, that if the Government can behave this way, when the tilt of the scale of balance between the owner of the land and the Government is largely tilted towards the rights of the owner being respected, what will happen if we pass the Land Value Index Bill in the format it is? I want to urge the Majority Leader because I know that the Bill is due for mediation; that if there is a thing that they should never concede is the rights of poor citizens like the ones that have brought a Petition to this House today to be tilted in favor of the Government. If the Government behaves like this when the scale of balance is tilted towards the poor, if we agree with the proposal from the Ministry of Lands to allow the Government have full control whereby if today they wake up and feel that there is something that they need to do in my little quarter of an acre land that I live on, they will just proceed and acquire the land, then they will compensate me at a time when they feel like doing. The citizens of this country will suffer greatly. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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